As individual institutions of education at all levels respond to the call for greater accountability and assessment, those who teach literacy face the challenging task of choosing what to measure and how to measure it.

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Ronald A. Sudol is Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and former dean of arts and sciences at Oakland University. He holds a Ph.D. from Stony Brook University and has had a long career in teaching, publication and consulting on writing and communications. Alice S. Horning is Professor Emerita of Writing & Rhetoric and Linguistics at Oakland University. Her Ph.D. is from Michigan State University where she started her career focusing on the intersection of reading and writing.

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Alice S. Horning/Ronald A. Sudol: Introduction - Karen Sheingold/Joan I. Heller/Sheryl R. Kaskowitz: How Scoring Helps Teachers Understand Literacy Standards - Ronald A. Sudol: How Implementation Modifies Literacy Standards - Janice Witherspoon Neuleib/Maurice Scharton: Meeting Standards Through Effective Practices for Assessing Revision - Alice S. Horning: Adventures in Assessment: Definitions and Standards for Critical Literacy Programs - Sibylle Gruber: Learning in Different Worlds: Native American Students' Approaches to Academic Literacies - Laura Gray-Rosendale: Deconstructing "Dumb Reading Groups": Rural New England Culture, Basic Writers/Readers, and the Question of Standards - Van E. Hillard: Literacy Standards at Hull House: Forming a New Citizen in Civic Space - Ken Baake: Developing Reflective Homo Economics: How to Teach Economic Literacy in a Writing Course - Diane Kelly-Riley: Afterword: Challenges and Opportunities in the Changing Landscape of Literacy Assessment and Accountability - Contributors - Index.